Senior Space Based Sensing Integration Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Chantilly, Virginia, United States. Travel as needed. TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly required.

Salary: $190,000+ annually, depending on experience, certifications, and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global provides aerospace and defense engineering support for government missions and space-based sensing programs.

What you will do

• Provide independent technical assessments of contractor designs, architectures, performance, and technical risks.
• Support systems engineering activities across requirements development, design reviews, integration, testing, verification, launch, and early orbit operations.
• Evaluate radar payload performance, RF hardware development, production testing, modeling, and system-level trade studies.
• Support MBSE and digital engineering efforts, including system performance modeling, multi-sensor integration, and data fusion.
• Analyze and validate end-to-end mission performance across sensors, ground systems, processing, and dissemination.
• Prepare briefings, decision-support materials, and mitigation recommendations for government leadership while collaborating with government and contractor teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or a related technical field; a master’s degree or PhD is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in aerospace, space systems, or defense programs.
• Experience across the full system lifecycle, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations.
• Experience with requirements traceability, architecture development, mission data processing, or ground-system architectures.
• Experience with MBSE and SysML tools such as Cameo or MagicDraw.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including briefing senior leadership; TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly is required.

Nice to have

• SETA or similar experience supporting a government program office and familiarity with DoD/IC acquisition processes.
• Experience working with prime contractors and major subcontractors.
• Background in satellite and payload engineering, communications architectures, crypto integration, or multi-sensor data fusion.
• Experience with integration and test campaigns, launch-site operations, readiness reviews, or early orbit commissioning.
• Proficiency with Tableau, Confluence, Jira, DOORS, Python, MATLAB, or similar analytical tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position supporting a high-visibility government space program.
• Direct collaboration with government leadership, industry partners, and contractor teams.
• Work spans the complete mission lifecycle from design through launch and early operations.
• Travel is required as needed.